Buccinum pulchellum

Buccinum pulchellum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Buccinum
Species:
B. pulchellum
Binomial name
Buccinum pulchellum
Sars G.O., 1878

Buccinum pulchellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Not to be confounded with:

  • Buccinum pulchellum Blainville, 1829: synonym of Zafrona pulchella (Blainville, 1829)
  • Buccinum pulchellum Calcara, 1845: synonym of Mazatlania cosentini (Philippi, 1836)
  • Buccinum pulchellum C. B. Adams, 1851: synonym of Decipifus sixaolus Olsson & McGinty, 1958

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs in European waters.

References

  1. ^ Buccinum pulchellum Sars G.O., 1878. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.


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